Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.

Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

Watch, stand fast in the faith, be like men, be strong.

Stand firm therefore, having girded your waist with truth, having put on the breastplate of righteousness,

Only, let your conduct be worthy of the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your affairs, that you stand firm in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel,

For now we live, if you stand fast in the Lord.

Therefore, brethren, stand firm and hold on to the traditions which you were taught, whether by word or our epistle.

but Christ as a Son over His own house, whose house we are if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm to the end.

For we have become partakers of Christ if we hold fast to the origin of our Foundation steadfast to the end,

Seeing then that we have a great High Priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession.

Let us hold fast the confession of the hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful.

Therefore do not cast away your confidence, which has great reward.

For yet a little while, and He who is coming will come and will not linger.

But we are not of those who draw back to destruction, but of those who believe to the preserving of the soul.

Beloved, while I was very diligent to write to you concerning the common salvation, it was necessary for me to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.

But you, beloved, building yourselves up on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit,

keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.

But hold fast what you have till I come.

Remember therefore how you have received and heard; hold fast and repent. Therefore if you will not watch, I will come upon you as a thief, and you will not at all know what hour I will come upon you.

For you, brethren, have been called to liberty; only do not use liberty as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.

And this occurred because of false brethren secretly brought in (who came in by stealth to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage),

But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor.

but the Jerusalem from above is free, which is the mother of us all.

So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman but of the free.

Restore unto me the joy of Your salvation, and uphold me with a willing spirit.

The Spirit of the Lord Jehovah is upon Me; because Jehovah has anointed Me to preach the Gospel to the poor; He has sent Me to bind up the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound;

Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.

And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free.

Jesus answered them, Truly, truly, I say to you, Everyone practicing sin is a slave of sin.

Therefore if the Son sets you free, you shall truly be free.

For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under Law but under grace.

And having been set free from sin, you became slaves to righteousness.

So then if, while her husband lives, she becomes another man's, she will be called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from that law, so that she is no adulteress, though she becomes another man's.

But now we have been loosed from the Law, having died to that in which we were held, so that we should serve in the newness of spirit and not in the oldness of the letter.

For the Law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set me free from the law of sin and death.

For he who is called in the Lord while a slave is the Lord's freedman. Likewise he who is called while free is Christ's slave.

Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

as free, yet not using liberty as a pretext for evil, but as bondservants of God.

While they promise them liberty, they themselves are slaves of corruption; for by whom a person is overcome, by him also he is brought into bondage.

And this occurred because of false brethren secretly brought in (who came in by stealth to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage),

But now, knowing God, or rather being known by God, how is it that you turn again to the feeble and worthless principles, to which you desire again to be in bondage?

For they bind heavy burdens, hard to bear, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers.

Now therefore, why do you test God by putting a yoke on the neck of the disciples which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?

So let no one judge you in food or in drink, or regarding a festival or a new moon or sabbaths,

Let no one condemn you, taking delight in false humility and worship of angels, intruding into those things which he has not seen, being puffed up without cause by his fleshly mind,

Therefore, if you died with Christ from the basic principles of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to decrees;

which all concern things which perish with the using; according to the commandments and doctrines of men?

the Holy Spirit signifying by this that the way into the Holy of Holies was not yet made manifest while the first tabernacle was still standing.

concerned only with foods and drinks, various washings, and fleshly ordinances imposed until the time when things were set right.